James Deshler

James Deshler (18 February 1833-20 September 1863) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
James Deshler was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama in 1833, and he graduated from West Point in 1854 alongside J.E.B. Stuart, William Dorsey Pender, and Stephen D. Lee. Deshler served in the US Army during a war against the Mormons in Utah in 1858, and he resiged his First Lieutenant's commission to join the Confederate States Army when the American Civil War broke out in 1861. Deshler fought in the West Virginia campaign of 1861, and he led four Texas regiments until he was captured at Fort Hindman in 1863. On 28 July 1863, after being exchanged, he was promoted to Brigadier-General. Deshler was killed when a Union artillery shell tore his heart from his body at the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863.